Dearfolk, Tennessee Route 100 is the old Nashville-to-Memphis highway, before U. S. designations and waaaay before interstates. Route 100 turns off Charlotte Pike about 3 miles west of the new circumferential route, if I remember right. Follow 100 about 4 or 5 miles... nearly about to the county line... and it's there on your right, in the Pasquo community. It is truly a not-to-be-missed place: it is to a country ham breakfast what Farley's Bar-BQ Pit in Ashland City is to meat-and-three home cooking (sigh!)... up there with Uncle Mort's on old U. S. 78 between Dora and Jasper, Alabama. Waxing Nostalgically, Ort. Carlton in Athens, Georgia.

I love breakfast at the Loveless (having been raised on country ham & biscuits), but their fried chicken would barely rank in the top 10 for the Nashville area. If you want good fried chicken, go a little further out Hwy 100 to the Beacon Light Tearoom. Their chicken is the real deal. And for the record, I would take the chicken at any of the following Nashville-area places over the Loveless: Beacon Light, Swett's, Monell's, Sylvan Park, Arnold's, Elliston Place Soda Shop, Silver Sands, Kleer-vu Lunchroom (Murfreesboro). And that's without even venturing into the "hot chicken" arena (Prince's, Mr. Boo's, Boltons, etc...). So, go to Loveless...for breakfast -- ham, biscuits & preserves. It's what they do best...

Dearfolk, Those of you not from the South may not realize that some people actually eat fried chicken for breakfast! It's in fact on the breakfast menu at the local Gateway Cafe - hot or cold! Does anyone in Nashville know if The Ranch House is still on Gallatin Road in Inglewood? It used to be run by Porter & Harvey, two schoolteachers who quit the classroom to go into the neighborhood cafe business. That was a gooood little place about 1985-86-87, when I lived up thataway. Greetingly (Not Grittingly!), Ort. Carlton in Athens, Georgia.

Pork Chops make a great breakfast too... Ort, I can't find any current references to the Ranch House. I'll try to get over than direction to make sure, but I don't recall seeing any reference to it prior to yours, and I've been in Nashville continuously since 1988...

I seem to remember that Loveless DOES offer fried chicken as a breakfast item, but that you have to call ahead for that. It's been close to 2 years since I've had the privilege; am I remembering wrong?

pogo... I'll be through Nashville in July, and I will do my best to try one or two of your suggestions. Man, talk about bursting a guy's bubble....

At the suggestion of pogophiles, I stopped at Mr. Boo's last Saturday. This isn't just a chicken, this is an experience! My first shock was the cost. Six dollars for one breast with attached wing. When I ordered it hot, the woman at the counter asked if I had been there before. "If not, perhaps you'd prefer medium or mild." I had it hot......It was hot. First off, this piece of chicken is huge. With most chicken being processed at 21 days of age, one forgets how big a full grown chicken is. Next, the color is red, as in cayenne pepper red. It looks as though it's coated in a 1/8 inch covering of red pepper. Did I mention this chicken is hot? It's hot. An hour later, I thought back to my first impression. Six bucks? Perfectly reasonable. Thanks, pogophiles...next stop, Prince's!

There are 144 threads on here that mention the Loveless Café in Nashville, but this one is the only one titled "Loveless Café". I lived in Brentwood TN for 4 years and visit Franklin TN frequently since my daughter and her family live there but this past Friday was my first visit to the Loveless Café and I said to myself, "Why didn't you go there earlier, you dummy?" Let me report that the place is alive & well and apparently prospering despite having been closed, sold and re-opened a while ago. On the Friday after Christmas, the wait for a table at 10:30 AM was 2 hours! Normally, I wouldn't wait that long at ANY restaurant, but I just had to find out what all the Hoopla was about. We spent the time browsing in the shops there, sampled some of the snacks and learned you can put the name Loveless Motel on practically ANY piece of saleable merchandise! We were seated in about 1 hour and 45 minutes and it was worth the wait! Here come the biscuits 1st thing out! The biscuits were a surprise since I didn't expect them to be small and more like a roll in texture but that was not a bad thing. They were very good but just not what I expected. The Signature Jams & Preserves - OUTSTANDING. I ordered the Pit-Cooked Pork Barbeque & Eggs with Grits AND a side order of the Pimento Cheese with Fried Green Tomato Biscuits. It was a large helping of BBQ & Eggs OE. I took 1/2 the BBQ home with us along with some leftover biscuits and had that the next day. My Bride had the Waffle loaded with Pecans Strawberries and Whipped Cream and couldn't finish it. The server was great and friendly. I won't wait another 33 years to go back again!

Buffetbuster, I lived in Nashville for 10 years and was close enough to Loveless to have breakfast there on weekdays without a crowd. When Donna McCabe sold the restaurant several years ago, the menu and recipes changed extensively and I don't think it was for the better. If you'd been there before the sale, I think you would have loved most everything on the menu. The restaurant didn't require any tinkering but the new owners had a field day doing it anyway.

Here's a thought! Google "Loveless Café" YOURSELF Click on their Web Site. Copy their address. Open MapQuest. Post the address and click. WHALLAH! There's your map AND the directions to the Loveless Café!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish that I had had the time to better plan my last trip through Tennessee. I stayed in Brentwood, just a few miles from the Loveless, and did not know that it existed. However, I did get to Gus's chicken so it wasn't a total loss. Next time, for sure. Bill